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Within the text of articles, you can provide hyperlinks, highlighted in blue text, to other articles on WikiIslam, for example [[The Textual History of the Qur'an]].  

In order to format and organize data, templates are used on WikiIslam. These are markup language commands which tell the wiki to format data in specific ways and links to outside websites. Commonly used templates on WikiIslam include the quote template, the Quran template, the Quran series template, and the various hadith templates. Quote can be used in the following manner: <code><nowiki>{{Quote</nowiki></code> ... <code><nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>. This will produce a box with two fields, one for a source and another for the text being quoted. The source is introduced by a pipe | after the word "Quote." See the example below:

These quote boxes can be used for any quoted source. Templates can also be used to link to sources outside WikiIslam, particularly the Qur'an and the hadith. WikiIslam uses www.quranx.com for this purpose. The temple <code><nowiki>{{Quran|surah number|ayah number}}</nowiki></code> will produce a link to the specified surah (chapter) and ayah (verse). For example, to like to surat-al-baqarah (surah number 2), ayah 36 the template format would be <code><nowiki>{{Quran|2|36}}</nowiki></code>. For a series of ayahs the following template cane be used: <code><nowiki>{{Quran|surah number|first ayah in series|last ayah in series}}</nowiki></code>. For example for surat-al-baqarah verse 20-23 the format would be <nowiki>{{Quran|2|20|23}}</nowiki>. All of the "Sahih Six" or authoritative Sunni collections of hadith also have templates which link to QuranX. Below you can see examples of all of their uses:

| |{&#123;<nowiki>Bukhari|1|1|5}}</nowiki>||{{Bukhari|1|1|5}}

| |{&#123;<nowiki>Muslim|1|5}}</nowiki>||{{Muslim|1|5}}

| |{&#123;<nowiki>Abudawud|1|7}}</nowiki>||{{Abudawud|1|7}}

Before starting a new article, please understand [[WikiIslam:Scope and Article Relevance|WikiIslam's scope and relevance requirements]]. In short, the article should be directly related to the beliefs and/or practices of Muslims.

An [[WikiIslam:Article wizard|Article Wizard]] is available to help you create articles — it is not required but will help you construct better articles. '''Note:''' The ability to create articles directly in mainspace [[WikiIslam:Autoconfirmed article creation trial/Request for comment on permanent implementation|is restricted]] to autoconfirmed users, though non-confirmed users and non-registered users can submit a proposed article through the [[WikiIslam:Articles for creation|Articles for Creation]] process, where it will be reviewed and considered for publication. Before creating an article, please [[Help:Searching|search]] WikiIslam first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject, and please also review the [[WikiIslam:Article titles|article titling policy]] for guidance on what to name the article.